2027 UCA Undergraduate Prospectus

UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2027 THINK CREATIVE INDUSTRIES THINK UCA

A CREATIVE CHOICE IS A CAREER CHOICE At University for the Creative Arts, we turn passions into professions.

In the UK alone, the creative industries are worth £124 billion and support 2.4 million jobs – more than construction, more than financial services.

Our graduates have worked on Stranger Things and Star Wars, with Netflix, Disney, BBC, and HBO. Won BAFTAs and Golden Globes. Designed with Adidas, Mulberry, and Levi’s. Thousands more are building careers in agencies, studios, start-ups, and independent practices all of their own.

They didn’t wait until they had it all figured out. They started with curiosity – and grew into confidence.

They’ll tell you that UCA was where it all began to feel real. Where their passion became their profession.

Where a creative choice became a career choice.

Everyone you see in this prospectus, across our adverts, and on our billboards, is a creative studying at UCA. They listened to their hearts. They followed their dreams. Now it’s your turn.

UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2027

THINK CREATIVE INDUSTRIES THINK UCA

CONTENTS

06-27 01 WELCOME 28-61 02 OUR SCHOOLS 62-129 03 OUR COURSES 04 HOW TO APPLY 130-149

WELCOME

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We’re your Joint Vice-Chancellors, Mark and Melanie. We’re here to make sure you have the freedom, support, and direction to discover just how much you’re capable of – and how to turn your passion into a meaningful career that lasts a lifetime.

Because your creativity doesn’t fit in a neat little box.

You’ll have a million ideas while you’re here. At UCA, you can explore every single one of them, as much as you need to, until you find the one you love.

Our tutors will teach, mentor, and guide you through every moment of your creative discovery. They’ll find the time and make the space to help you with your decisions, big and small.

And our students – young creatives just like you – are diverse. You can be exactly who you are here, you don’t need to change anything or explain yourself to anybody.

You won’t just fit in at UCA, you’ll belong – from day one.

Here’s our promise to you, as Vice-Chancellors: we will support you to find your voice, your art, and your future.

We’ll open your mind and equip you to think and create to your heart’s content. With those skills, you’ll be able to build a life that sustains and delights you – creatively, professionally, forever.

Because at UCA, a creative choice is a career choice.

Professor Mark Ellul & Professor Melanie Gray Your Joint Vice-Chancellors

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Welcome

COURSE DIRECTORY Course name

Location

UCAS Code*

Page

Integrated Foundation Year

ECF

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64

BA (Hons) Acting

Farnham

W410

66

BA (Hons) Animation

Farnham

W615

68

BA (Hons) Architecture

Canterbury

K100

70

BA (Hons) Body Art

Canterbury

W191

72

BA (Hons) Business & Management

ECF

N200

74

BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass

Farnham

W266

76

BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art

Farnham

W223

78

BSc (Hons) Computer Science

Farnham

G400

80

BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Screen

Farnham

W440

82

BA (Hons) Digital Media Arts

Farnham

W690

84

BA (Hons) Digital Marketing

ECF

P304

86

BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier

Epsom

W237

88

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding & Communication

Epsom

WN65

90

BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Management

Epsom

N101

92

BA (Hons) Fashion Design

Epsom

W233

94

BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling

Epsom

W239

96

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Course Directory

ECF = Available at Epsom, Canterbury & Farnham

An Integrated Foundation Year, and a Professional Practice Year is available as an option on many UCA undergraduate degrees. Check out our website course pages for more details.

Please note: in this prospectus, you’ll see testimonies from graduates whose courses have changed title over the years, and we’ve indicated these with ** next to those course names.

UCAS codes for 4/5 year courses including Integrated Foundation and/or Professional Practice Years are different to the codes below and are available via ucas.com

For more information and the latest list of our current courses, visit uca.ac.uk

Course name

Location

UCAS Code*

Page

BA (Hons) Film Production

Farnham

W600

98

BA (Hons) Fine Art – Canterbury

Canterbury

W100

100

BA (Hons) Fine Art – Farnham

Farnham

W101

102

BA (Hons) Games Arts

Farnham

W280

104

BA (Hons) Games Design

Farnham

I620

106

BSc (Hons) Games Development

Farnham

G450

108

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Farnham

W217

110

BA (Hons) Illustration

Farnham

W220

112

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design

Canterbury

W257

114

BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing

Farnham

W271

116

BA (Hons) Make-up & Hair Design

Epsom

W452

118

BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production

Farnham

W302

120

BA (Hons) Photography

Farnham

W640

122

BA (Hons) Product Design

Canterbury

W243

124

BA (Hons) Television Production

Maidstone

P311

126

BA (Hons) Visual Communication

Canterbury

W215

128

*All UCAS Codes are for 3 year courses

Course Directory

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WHY UCA? Creativity isn’t something that we teach, it’s our DNA. We’ve been training artists, painters, architects, and fashion designers for 170 years. And we still train them today, alongside modern creatives like gamemakers, film directors, graphic designers, social media creators, and more.

What this means is that every part of UCA comes from a creative heritage. You’ll never need to fight for your art, explain your dreams, or justify the way you think.

We get it and we get you.

Everyone who tutors here – from course lecturers to specialist technicians – brings decades of expertise and advice from their time spent in the creative sector.

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Why UCA?

Our campuses are calm enough for focus and reflection, yet close enough to London and major creative centres to stay inspired, connected and ambitious.

We’ll give you the space to explore your passion, the skills to turn it into a profession, and the mindset to forge a rewarding, creative future that lasts a lifetime.

A PLAYGROUND FOR YOUR IMAGINATION Do what you love, every single day.

Our campuses are bursting with places, spaces, and equipment that lets you play, grow, and develop your craft.

A PLATFORM FOR YOUR FUTURE Turn your passion into your profession.

We’ll give you opportunities to train your skills in the real world, setting you up for a career in the creative industries.

A PLACE TO BELONG Come to UCA exactly the way you are.

Be loud, be quiet, be bold, be curious.

Be anything you want to be.

Why UCA?

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THE UCA WAY Our Creative Learning Framework is how your course is structured, taught, and assessed. Built around the things we know matter most to creative students.

LEARN BY MAKING

Over 80% of our teaching spaces are studios, workshops, or labs.

Get practical and stuck in – spend most of your time in studios and workshops.

That means you’re not just studying your subject – you’re doing it, every day, from the start.

SEE YOUR PLACE IN THE BIGGER PICTURE

Your tutors are a mix of passionate industry legends, and cutting-edge practitioners.

Understand history, culture and context to give your work depth.

You’ll explore where your craft has come from, what’s shaping it now, and how your own work connects to wider conversations.

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The UCA Way

FIND YOUR PEOPLE Collaboration is built into the curriculum, where you’ll make friends and future creative partners.

Our shared modules focus on how you collaborate, not just what you deliver. Setting you up for success in a creative community.

Our Schools are compact and collaborative by design – the kind of place where you discover that the people around you are one of the most valuable things about your degree.

GAIN CAREER CONFIDENCE FOR THE LONG GAME

Our courses have been designed with industry, focused on your professional pathway, you’ll learn about grant applications, self-employment, and how to nail creative job interviews.

Build skills, resilience, and industry awareness that prepare you for a successful creative career.

LEARN YOUR WAY Designed around how you learn best – not one-size-fits-all – our courses are focused on being inclusive. We listen to our students, and you learn and get feedback how you want it.

Inclusive assessment, synchronised deadlines, and a student experience built with real life in mind.

The UCA Way

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UCA STARS

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UCA Stars

Dearest creatives, How exciting to know you are about to embark on the same path as I did into the creative industries – and how wonderful that you are considering UCA, my old university.

My mother also taught here, and I found out for myself what UCA had to offer, learning so much along the way.

It gave me the perfect grounding for the career I’ve been blessed to have, and I have such fond memories.

The creative industries are always changing – they are dynamic, moving with the times. Creatives like you and I are always seeking to challenge norms, find solutions to the issues that we face today, and bring something fresh and exciting to our craft. It takes passion, dedication, and skill – and at UCA, you’ll find all the support, freedom, and facilities you need to discover and develop these attributes.

Whatever you are going to study, make sure you focus on getting people to sit up and notice you and your work – and, most importantly, just keep going!

Dame Zandra Rhodes Fashion and textiles designer

Chancellor Emerita

Photography by Gene Nocon

UCA Stars

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OUR ALUMNI

StillMoving.net for Disney

Marvel Studios/Disney

Gareth Edwards BA (Hons) Film & Video**

Grace Palma BA (Hons) Acting & Performance**

Kate Herron BA (Hons) Film Production

Film director Jurassic World Rebirth

Actress Dogman

Director Loki, The Last of Us

“My best friend was studying computer animation. I was doing film, and we combined our graduation films together.

If I hadn’t met him or interacted with other students to discover other aspects of filmmaking, I wouldn’t have got into visual effects or ended up with the career I’ve had.”

“UCA is a really sweet, calm, safe place where I could experiment and explore without any pressure.”

“Before I started, I loved cinema but didn’t understand the inner workings of making a story come to life. UCA gave me this foundation, and taught me how to lead, and work with a team.”

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UCA Stars

Paul Robinson BA (Hons) Fine Art

Kreszend Sackey BA (Hons) Fashion Design

Ben Pechey BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion & Imaging**

Artist LUAP

Artist and afro hair artist for television and editorial

Author, presenter and LGBTQIA advocate

“I did lots of experimenting, developing my own mark-making and finding my own voice. I still use some of the techniques I used back then.”

“We had an amazing tutor who “We benefited from so many taught me that, while you might amazing guests, resources and see something in your design as industry projects. The course felt a mistake, others may not. I still fresh, invigorating and exciting. use that knowledge in everything As a freelancer now, I can see I do.” that my UCA course really prepared me for the job market.”

UCA Stars

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“I always assumed making games would be a part-time hobby. I’d work a normal job and make games in my spare time. At best, maybe join a little indie studio.

But now, now I want to lead teams in building Triple-A games for the world market.”

Sam Lodge BA (Hons) Games Design

“Originally, I wanted to be (and just assumed I’d be) a freelance artist. Now I know I’ve got so much more potential, I’m more of a people-person than I thought. I’m looking into galleries that I can work in, to work on the marketing side of things, or perhaps stewarding to show guests art. I’ve loved my experience in that, I’m more than an artist.”

Lie Walters BA (Hons) Fine Art

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UCA Stars

“My college tutors told me I didn’t have the subjects or the grades for architecture.

Three years later, I was headhunted by a firm directly after my final exam. Now I’ve been accepted by the University of Cambridge to do my Masters.”

Ellie Crawford BA (Hons) Architecture

“A few years ago, I never thought I’d be able to show my work to professionals.

My confidence wouldn’t have been up to it – but I’ve recently pitched my work to Creative & Art Directors at Supermassive Games. It’s such a thrill and I’m so proud of myself and my classmates! We’ve all come so far, together.”

Josie Smith BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art

UCA Stars

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“AT UCA, I NEVER FELT ISOLATED. IT WAS SO WELCOMING, AND WE WERE ENCOURAGED TO BE OURSELVES.” Jay Thapar BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion & Imaging** Fashion Leader L'Oréal

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UCA Stars

“ALL YOU NEED AT UCA IS PASSION, YOU DON’T NEED A BACKGROUND IN FASHION. UCA IS SO GOOD AT HELPING YOU EXPLORE EVERY AVENUE SO THAT, BY THE END, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.” Siân Lewis BA (Hons) Fashion Management & Marketing** Senior Sustainability Executive Nobody’s Child

Why UCA UCA? Stars

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BUILD A CREATIVE CAREER THAT LASTS A LIFETIME

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Build a Creative Career That Lasts a Lifetime

Your creativity doesn’t need to be a hobby, a part-time interest, or something for your evenings and weekends. We’re here to turn your passion into your profession – not your side hustle.

That doesn’t just mean making you employable, it’s about giving you the right mindset to follow through with your creative expression. Because in this sector, whether you want to be part of something bigger or set up your own thing – you need to be resilient, confident in your vision, and able to challenge the way things have always been done. Here’s how we turn your talent into your career:

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Live industry briefs

Work with real clients, customers, and experts on briefs set by industry partners.

Collaborate on designs, respond to proposals, and get a taste of what the creative sector really wants from you.

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Real world experience

Start building your contacts and your CV by working in the industry during your degree.

From two weeks to whole year placements, show what you’re made of to potential future employers.

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Professional practice years

Many of our undergraduate degrees come with the option of an additional year spent in practice.

Between your second and third year, you could spend a full year on a placement directly related to your creative studies.

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Your future

And with all that under your belt, we’ll still be alongside you as you take your first steps into the industry.

During your studies and after graduation, we’ll support you in finding freelance opportunities, part-time jobs, or your first big career move.

Build a Creative Career That Lasts a Lifetime

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GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES Creative careers rarely follow straight lines, so you don’t need to either.

At UCA, your journey could take you anywhere – studying in Asia, volunteering in the Americas, or cultural trips to Europe.

Wherever you go and whatever you do, you’ll come back with bright new ideas, perspectives, memories, and experiences that will change the way you see the world.

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Global Opportunities

Study overseas Broaden your horizons, experience new cultures, and develop your work in a university abroad.

Choose from a single-semester trip or a full year at one of our partner institutions around the world (and it’ll count towards your UCA degree.)

You could study in Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Turkey, Norway, Finland, Canada, the USA, and many more.

Summers well spent Want to spend your time off doing something meaningful, without needing to move or miss any of your learning at UCA? We can help you find short-term overseas study options, chances to work abroad, or trips to volunteer around the world.

It was magical

Just do it!

My advice is to say yes

Siân Lewis Studied in New York

Jacob Morgan Volunteered in Fiji

Kayleigh Bates Studied in Italy

“Classes on 5th Avenue, iconic luxury shopping. It was magical.

“Any students thinking about doing something like this – just do it!

“From doing this, I have now gained five new friends with whom I am making plans to travel the rest of the world. My other advice would be that money can always come back; memories can’t. There are grants you can apply for to help, and I found Milan quite affordable.

I never expected my life to involve living in Manhattan, or becoming an expert in fashion sustainability. My friends don’t recognise me now, I was never that girl. Now I am.”

It was the best experience.

I would love to go back.”

You also get to say ‘when I lived in Milan,’ which is always fun.”

Global Opportunities

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OUR SCHOOLS

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CANTERBURY CITY OF STORIES On ancient cobbled streets, between Medieval buildings, alongside the wide, peaceful river – you’ll find Canterbury.

Home of Chaucer, Becket, and Marlowe – this city has been at the centre of art, theatre, and literature for hundreds of years.

Today, it’s a world famous destination for all things historic and creative – a stunning location in which to create.

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Canterbury School of Art, Architecture & Design

Steeped in history, storytelling, and ideas, Canterbury has been one of England’s cultural capitals for millennia.

Built around its world-famous cathedral and historic streets, the city has been magnetic for pilgrims, writers, artists, thinkers, and creatives.

Today, our students love its independent cafés, bookshops, galleries, and vintage stores. Favourite spots include The Penny Theatre (for live sport, karaoke, and quizzes), Cité Crêpes (for quick, delicious bites) and the Curzon Cinema for indie films and blockbuster hits.

You don’t have to go far to stretch your legs, either.

We’re surrounded by green space – Westgate Gardens, Dane John Gardens, and the city walls offer places to walk and unwind, while the Kent countryside and coast are stunning options for sunny days.

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CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN Scan for full details on our facilities.

UCA Canterbury is home to our architecture, design, fine art, and visual communications courses.

It’s where creative thinking gains shape, purpose and direction. It is an art school rooted in designing big, equipped to help you turn ideas and experiments into masterpieces.

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Canterbury School of Art, Architecture & Design

Large, accessible machine workshop equipped with a mixture of hand tools and machinery including CNC routing

Painting studio, where you will learn to construct frames and stretchers, as well as using traditional painting techniques and materials

Photographic studio, where you will be able to book photoshoots and document your portfolio of work

Digital Fabrication Lab where you can use laser cutters and 3D/SLS printers

Printmaking studios for screenprinting, litho, offset, lino-cutting, and etching

Animation suite installed with specialist software, high-end drawing tablets, and scanners

Print bureau with multiple options on finishing and papers, offering self-service and bespoke printing to professional standards

Four fully equipped digital media suites with the latest Macs and PCs running up-todate software

Rochester House Visual Communication and Body Art studios

Sculpture studios equipped with resins, kilns, and facilities for mould making and casting

Colour and black-and-white darkrooms for developing film, cyanotype, and the use of industry standard film processors

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ACCOMMODATION AT CANTERBURY

UCA Canterbury has two halls accommodation options – Ian Dury House (on campus) and Riverside Student Quarter (off campus), just a 20 minute walk away.

Hall

No. of rooms

Ian Dury House

56 (all en-suite rooms) and 1 (adaptive flat for 1)

Riverside Student Quarter

100-136 (all en-suite rooms)

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Prices range from around £158 to £185 per week, self-catered If you’d prefer private accommodation, our dedicated team have resources to help you with your search. You can find out more about this and our services at uca.ac.uk/accommodation

Canterbury School of Art, Architecture & Design

Ian Dury House

Ian Dury House

Riverside Quarter

Canterbury School of Art, Architecture & Design

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EPSOM CENTRE OF STYLE Between the capital and the countryside lies Epsom, a small town with a huge identity.

Home of the Derby, surrounded by rolling green hills, and with a clear view of the London skyline – this is a place to escape to and a destination all of its own.

Slow down, breathe the air, and explore Epsom’s rich history of bringing wonder to the world.

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Epsom School of Creative Business, Fashion & Enterprise

Best known for the Derby and the Downs, Epsom has long been one of Britain’s largest stages for public spectacle, show, and style.

Attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors, for hundreds of years, the Derby continues to be one of the country’s finest fashion events – bringing London’s glitz and glamour to stunning surroundings.

Some of our students’ favourite spots in the town include Rosebery Park, opposite the University, and The Faraday – for its karaoke, bottomless brunches, live sport, weekly quizzes, and extensive vegan menu.

If you fancy some shopping, Epsom has a long stretch of high-street stores to choose from.

Want a bigger day out? Thorpe Park and Chessington World of Adventures can give you a thrill, just a short train ride away.

Or for a big night, hop on the train to reach Soho, Leicester Square, Brixton, or Shoreditch within an hour.

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EPSOM SCHOOL OF CREATIVE BUSINESS, FASHION & ENTERPRISE Scan for full details on our facilities.

UCA Epsom is home to our creative business and fashion courses.

Epsom is a creative industries campus with oxygen. Close enough to London to plug straight into the world’s biggest creative economy, far enough out to give you space to think, kitted out with classic and contemporary technologies.

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Epsom School of Creative Business, Fashion & Enterprise

Extensive fashion studios with sewing facilities

Digital print studio with large and small format printing, bookbinding, guillotine, perfect binding, vinyl cutting, and dry mounting

Laser cutter and 3D-printing facilities

Gerber technology – a unique Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) facility for fashion

Screen-print studio for traditional printing

Seminar rooms

Digital fashion studio

Sound studio with equipped sound booth

Video conferencing

Textiles studios

Fully equipped photographic studios

Boardrooms and breakout spaces

Make-up and hair design salon

Colour film processing (C41) developing film, and hi-spec scanners, colour workflows, and photographic printing

IT studios

Dedicated Fashion Atelier machine rooms and pattern-cutting studios

250-seat auditorium

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ACCOMMODATION AT EPSOM

UCA Epsom has a range of halls accommodation both on campus or around a 10 minutes walk away.

Hall

No. of rooms

Bradford House

99 (all en-suite)

Crossways House

99 (all en-suite)

Wilberforce Court

70 (shared facilities)

Worple Road

53 (all en-suite)

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Prices range from around £170 to £198 per week, self-catered If you’d prefer private accommodation, our dedicated team have resources to help you with your search. You can find out more about this and our services at uca.ac.uk/accommodation

Epsom School of Creative Business, Fashion & Enterprise

Worple Road

Bradford House

Bradford House

Epsom School of Creative Business, Fashion & Enterprise

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FARNHAM TOWN OF MAKERS Home to one of the very first UK art schools, Farnham is a town rich with creative craftsmanship.

Its river valleys and ancient woodlands have attracted artists and writers for centuries.

Today, it’s a place to think, practice, grow, and become.

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Farnham School of Creative & Cultural Industries

As England’s very first World Craft Town, Farnham is alive with the sights and sounds of making.

You’ll find ceramicists, weavers, textile artists, book artists, woodworkers, metalworkers, and printmakers producing beautiful work of international acclaim.

The campus is a stone’s throw from the picturesque Lion and Lamb Yard, with its cafes, restaurants, pubs, and independent shops. Elphicks department store, Pullingers Art Shop, and 101 Collectors Records are some of our students’ favourite places to spend a slow afternoon shopping.

You’ll find your friends in The Lost Boy pub, or at Farnham Maltings catching shows, comedy, and films.

If you’re staying out late, hop on a bus to Guildford and you can dance the night away.

Or, for a slower pace, Bourne Woods and Caesar’s Camp offer peaceful, countryside walks and a chance to pause, think, and breathe.

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FARNHAM SCHOOL OF CREATIVE & CULTURAL INDUSTRIES Scan for full details on our facilities.

UCA Farnham is home to film, performing arts, fine art, photography, animation, crafts, graphic design, illustration, creative technology, and games courses.

Farnham is where ideas slow down enough to take shape. Where hands get dirty, where process matters, and where games are developed next to where glass is blown.

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Farnham School of Creative & Cultural Industries

Multiple film soundstages with industry-standard lighting facilities

Comic & Concept Art digital studio with Wacom Tablets

Dedicated performance and rehearsal spaces

Virtual Production and Motion Capture studio

Analogue film processing and darkrooms (colour and black-and-white) and digital imaging studio

Avid/Media Composer post-production video editing studios, and sound editing (Pro Tools) facilities

Photography studios with an infinity table, professional lighting, and adjustable backdrops for a range of creative shoots

Specialist workshops and equipment supporting both hand and mechanical processes for working with ceramics, glass, wood, metal, plastics, and jewellery.

Visual Effects studio

Digital print bureau providing professional print and finishing service using an extensive range of materials, paper types, sizes, and finishes

Cinema Animation studios with Mac workstations, lightboxes, line testers, and hi-speed batch scanners Animation rostrum rooms set up to capture stop-frame animation on Dragonframe Traditional printmaking workshop including equipment for intaglio, relief, screen printing, and letterpress

Book-finishing room which provides spiral and perfectbinding options along with paper handling machines for creating handouts and booklets Live performance room with musical instruments, control room for sound mixing, dubbing theatre, radio studios, TV studio, and foley studio

Foundry for bronze and aluminium casting Digital Fabrication Lab with laser cutters and 3D, SLS and resin printing facilities Three-camera digital television studio, networked to our broadcast newsroom, using professional-standard autocue software Computer science and creative computing labs Dedicated building with high-end games creation and experiencing environments and facilities, immersive VR studios, 3D printing and gaming consoles

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ACCOMMODATION AT FARNHAM

UCA Farnham has two on campus halls accommodation choices, both less than a minute from class. As well as Union Yard, Polden Studios – our purpose-built student accommodation in Aldershot.

Hall

No. of rooms

Student Village

345 (16 en-suite)

University Walk

252 (all en-suite)

Polden Studios

128 (all en-suite)

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Prices range from around £132 to £198 per week If you’d prefer private accommodation, our dedicated team have resources to help you with your search. You can find out more about this and our services at uca.ac.uk/accommodation

Farnham School of Creative & Cultural Industries

University Walk

University Walk

Student Village

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MAIDSTONE TELEVISION STUDIOS If you’re considering joining our BA (Hons) Television Production degree course, you’ll be spending your time at Maidstone Television Studios, where we have a unique partnership in place.

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Maidstone Television Studios

Here, you’ll have the opportunity to study at the UK’s largest regional independent TV broadcast facility, where some of the UK’s most recognisable shows have been filmed for the last 40 years.

You’ll be right at the heart of the action and, supported by our dedicated work placement co-ordinator, benefit from a range of professional opportunities during your studies. Students have worked behind the scenes on the likes of Deal or No Deal, Genius Game with David Tennant, and the Studios hosted Wes Anderson’s Oscar winning shorts for Netflix.

Accommodation There are no halls accommodation close to Maidstone, however, it is possible to apply for Canterbury accommodation and commute via a shuttle bus to the Studios. Students may prefer to seek local private accommodation.

Our accommodation team are more than happy to help you with this process, and you can find more information at uca.ac.uk/accommodation

Our learning environment inside the studios is spacious, friendly, and packed with all the facilities and resources you need to hone your skills, including access to live galleries, editing suites and an audio booth, as well as a fully stocked equipment store and library.

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OUR LIBRARIES Our libraries are amazing – offering great spaces to study, a wide range of computing, printing and copying services, helpful and dedicated staff, and access to our unique specialist arts collection.

Whether you’re looking for a quiet place to study or somewhere to work in a group, there are lots of different spaces in our libraries – from learning pods to meeting and seminar rooms, as well as open-access computing facilities.

We also have social spaces where you can sit back, relax, and catch up, or browse our wide range of specialist online and print magazines, newspapers, and journals.

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Our Libraries

Over 600,000 print and electronic books and exhibition catalogues 695 print journals and magazines

Access to over 2 million electronic journals and magazines 500 metres of archives, including the work of Tessa Boffin and Bob Godfrey 4,000 DVDs

More than 2 million films, television and radio shows online A wide range of special collections, including zines and artists’ books 70 academic and visual databases

We’ll help you to use our vast range of books and learning materials, and support you to improve your academic skills – like understanding assessments and improving your writing

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SUPPORTING YOU AT UCA University is a beautiful opportunity to experience new things, forge lasting friendships, and lean into a brand new chapter of your life. But we know that with all that excitement comes plenty of challenges, which is why we’re always here to listen, help, and support you – however you need us.

Each School has a Campus Life Hub – they’re your first call for guidance whenever you need it.

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Supporting You at UCA

Wellbeing and counselling

Disability and inclusion

We can talk with you about how you’re feeling and help you create a plan to address any worries.

If you’re comfortable talking to us about your disability or specific learning differences (SpLD) – we’ll support you and work with your tutors to help provide an accessible learning experience.

We can also offer regular, ongoing wellbeing support – or refer you to other specialist services.

We’ll help you to learn independently and give you skills and confidence that will stay with you for life.

And if you need support for any disability assessments, or apply for any allowances, we’ll support you there too.

Advice and guidance

And anything else you need

Confidential, practical, and personal support with issues like money, relationships, visas, or getting used to UK or university life.

Help comes in lots of different ways.

Whatever you need a hand with, we can find a way to make things a little easier for you.

Nothing is too small, there are no silly questions, we’re here to help.

Think about your needs, expected outcomes, and the support you need to successfully access learning.

For more information, visit uca.ac.uk/support

Designated staff If you’re under 18, a carer, a care leaver, or estranged – we’ll give you specialised support for the whole time you’re with us.

Your designated member of staff will be a point of contact for you and any carers of professionals working with you, for seamless and confidential support throughout your studies.

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Join us at a UCA live session Get the full story about the things that matter to you most, with live Q&A sessions on a range of topics – ask questions about what it’s like to live and study at UCA. Visit our website to find out when our next UCA live session is uca.ac.uk/webinars

Chat with our students Want to find out more about the specifics of student life, our support, or your course?

With Unibuddy, you can search for current UCA students by where they’re from or what they’re studying, and speak to someone just like you: uca.ac.uk/chat

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Becca’s story There is plenty of support for you throughout your learning – as Fine Art graduate Becca’s story shows.

Becca didn’t know she was dyslexic until she was in her second year at UCA, when she unexpectedly failed an essay. After undertaking a test for dyslexia, she found she was severely dyslexic, but with a high IQ, which probably masked her struggles.

“UCA, alongside Student Finance, issued me with a learning disability grant that covered a one-toone tutor for one session a week to help with my essays, and eventually my dissertation.

I had access to other benefits, such as extended deadlines, and a budget for additional materials and gadgets to help me work.

If you are struggling with your work, in particular with writing, then I highly recommend getting tested for dyslexia. Speak with your tutors and see if they have noticed any patterns in your work, because what I was completely oblivious to before seems so obvious now that I’ve been taught to spot the signs.

Although it is a little bit of an investment for the test, the rewards outweigh the initial cost.

It has impacted my life in a positive way and shaped my career into something I never thought was achievable.”

Becca Marsh BA (Hons) Fine Art

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MEET YOUR STUDENTS’ UNION Hello and welcome!

UCA Students’ Union (UCASU) is here to support students, build community, and improve life at UCA. Guided by our values of Creativity, Connection and Community, we work to make sure every student feels they belong. We elevate the student voice, create opportunities to develop skills and showcase talent, and bring people together through events, activities and campaigns.

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Meet Your Students’ Union

Membership from day one

Events, activities and advice

Did you know that when you enrol on a course at UCA, you automatically become a member of UCASU - you can be involved as you want.

Throughout the year, UCASU hosts a range of events, from markets where you can buy or sell creations, to celebrations such as Diwali or Halloween. We are here to help you find your community and connect with like-minded people.

Clubs and Societies With UCASU, you’ll have opportunities to meet others, further your non-academic interests and discover new hobbies. So, whether you’re into K-Pop, sports, or tabletop games, or you’re looking for friends in our LGBTQ+, international or neurodivergent communities, there’s something for everyone.

And if you ever find yourself with a problem, or you’re struggling and need some independent advice, there is a wealth of independent information and support available through UCASU too.

We’ve got your course supplies

Where to find us...

We’ve got your course supplies covered with our art shops on the Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham campuses. Our shops offer student-friendly prices, a warm welcome and a great range of goods.

You’ll find a UCASU office on your campus, right in the heart of things, so make sure to say hello and get involved!

If you want to keep on top of the latest news, events, and opportunities, you’ll find us on most social media platforms with the @ucasu tag.

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OUR COURSES

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INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR Turn curiosity into confidence and start your creative degree a step ahead.

The Integrated Foundation Year at UCA is a year of practical, studio-based learning – designed to ignite your creativity, sharpen your technical skills, and prepare you for what studying and working in the creative industries will feel like.

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Integrated Foundation Year

Explore everything, then choose your path.

Creative freedom you won’t find at A-level.

This isn’t a year of studying one thing – it’s all about discovery. In Term 1, you’ll work in core workshops and on experimental projects: from 2D concepts and 3D making, to hands-on craft and digital software. In Term 2, the focus shifts towards your chosen degree pathway, with self-directed projects tailored to your interests.

Students consistently tell us that the creative freedom on this course is what transforms them. The Integrated Foundation Year gives you permission to take risks, follow your curiosity, and develop ideas that mean something to you. It’s exploratory, interdisciplinary, and designed to help you find your place in the creative world.

Studio culture from day one.

Small studios, big difference.

You’ll have your own dedicated studio space – not a temporary desk or a room you need to pack up at the end of the day. Your studio is your creative home and you’ll share it with fellow foundation students. You’ll also use the same specialist workshops and facilities as students on BA courses, so by the time you progress, you’ll already know the spaces, the systems, and the people.

We keep foundation groups focussed so that tutor contact time is high. And you’re learning within a specialist creative arts university – surrounded by first, second and third-year students across art, design, architecture, fashion and more.

That interdisciplinary energy means you’ll make connections, pick up skills, and build a creative network of friends that carries into your degree.

Find out more about degree pathways and entry criteria via uca.ac.uk/foundation

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Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W410

Train as an actor. Become a creator.

We train actor-creators: performers who can also write, produce and direct for theatre and film. At UCA, you’ll experience conservatoire intensity with university depth, combining rigorous physical and vocal training with the creative independence to build a sustainable career in the creative industries.

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BA (Hons) Acting

Your training balances stage and screen, in both classical and contemporary contexts. You’ll perform in fully staged productions at professional theatres, shoot in industrystandard film studios, train in motion capture and virtual production suites, and showcase your work at national theatres. Every project is designed to stretch you technically and creatively.

By graduation, you’ll have an industry-standard showreel, voicereel, headshots, acting CV, and website – all included as part of the course, and designed to support you in launching your career. You’ll also leave with the skills, experience, and creative confidence to make your own work – without waiting for someone else to offer it.

Romey Chambers in “Dance Nation”

by Clare Barron

BA (Hons) Acting

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ANIMATION Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W615

Discover the animator you are, one film at a time.

At UCA, animation is unlimited. We believe you learn best by constant making, and this is how you’ll find out what kind of animation is most true to you.

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BA (Hons) Animation

Student film by James Doherty “Before Lights Out”

Student film by Hattie Greenwood “Wriggly Stones”

You’ll spend three years mastering how to tell stories, communicate ideas, and develop a visual language that’s entirely your own. This is where Europe’s first animation degree began over 50 years ago, and that pioneering spirit still drives everything we do.

You’ll be surrounded by people working in completely different ways – and that diversity is one of the course’s greatest strengths. Whether you work in stop motion, CGI, hand-drawn, experimental or hybrid techniques, and whether your work is rough and ready or technically refined – your animation is judged on its own terms.

You’ll be taught by award-winning filmmakers, receive feedback from Oscar and BAFTA-recognised practitioners, and target international film festivals with your work. By the time you graduate, you’ll have a distinctive portfolio, a clear creative voice, and the professional skills to enter the world of work with confidence.

BA (Hons) Animation

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ARCHITECTURE Campus

UCAS Code

Canterbury

K100

Where Architects learn to think like Artists.

There’s a type of architect that every studio wants to hire.

Architects who see the world differently, tackle problems from unexpected angles, and bring creative confidence to technically complex work. They’re rigorously trained, but ready to experiment. That’s a UCA Architect.

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BA (Hons) Architecture

Here, all of your learning happens through doing. You’ll develop ideas through intensive design projects, workshops, and one-to-one critiques with award-winning architects.

You’ll consult with structural engineers and sustainability specialists, travel for international briefs, and build your portfolio in professional studios that look, feel, and work like real architectural practices.

You’ll master architectural skills in groups small enough that your tutors know your name, your work, and your progress. With RIBA accreditation, you’ll build professional foundations and employable skillsets to stand out in the job market. With UCA training, you’ll stand head and shoulders above it.

Student work by Lottie Wild

Student work by Natalia Wolanska

BA (Hons) Architecture

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BODY ART Campus

UCAS Code

Canterbury

W191

The UK’s only Body Art degree. Tattoo, drag, transhumanism, performance – studied together for the first time.

If you’ve ever felt like your alternative interests don’t fit with a traditional university course, this one was built for you. Body Art at UCA is the UK’s first degree dedicated to the kinds of art – tattoo, drag, body modification, cosmetic enhancement, performance art – that has been, until now, on the sidelines.

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BA (Hons) Body Art

You’ll study the history, culture, and application of every form of body art – learning from legends and seeing first-hand how they shape subcultures and societies.

You’ll get hands-on with transhumanism, body painting, and even tattooing – finding your own voice and developing your style in whichever discipline speaks to you most.

We’re opening up and honouring the subject of body art; creating a safe, supported space for you to express any and every creative instinct you have. The weird and the wonderful, the raw and the refined – wherever your instincts take you, we’ll help you turn your passions into a sustainable, creative profession.

Student work by Cody Jackson

BA (Hons) Body Art

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BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom, Farnham and Canterbury

N200

The business degree for people who think and work creatively.

The creative industries are booming – but artistic talent alone doesn’t build brands, scale businesses, or find new customers. You need strategy, financial insight, and the confidence to lead – tailored to the unique nature of sectors that revolve around media and making. This is the course that gives you both.

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BA (Hons) Business & Management

You won’t find much traditional business school thinking here. You’ll get all the training – in marketing, organisational behaviour, finance, operations, and strategy – but always through a creative lens.

Your tutors have been the brains behind agencies, publishing houses, and fashion brands. Your assignments reward original, experimental thinking, as well as critical analysis. And your final project can be whatever you choose – an app, a podcast, a campaign, a start-up.

You’ll graduate knowing how businesses work – and how creativity makes them work better. Whether you’re launching something of your own or stepping into a leadership role, you’ll have the commercial skills and the confidence to make it happen.

Brand Identity & Design Direction Athenis is not designed to be only a stationery brand, but a vessel for analog self-expression in a culture of constant digital distraction. The brand identity has been carefully shaped to communicate calm confidence, tactile ritual, and a premium sensibility grounded in sustainability. Guided by consumer research, luxury branding theory, and creative experimentation, the Athenis visual and verbal identity was designed to resonate with a conscious, aesthetics-driven audience.

Conceptual Foundations: “Time is the New Luxury”

“Where time becomes the new luxury — empower, reflect, thrive, one page at a time.”

Athenis draws from Dr Ramandeep Shergill’s insight that “time is the real luxury”, a concept which became foundational to the brand’s emotional and philosophical core. In an age of over-automation and digital burnout, Athenis reframes analog planning as an act of luxury and selfworth. Time is not something to conquer, but something to savour. This notion shaped not only the brand tone but also informed the slogan development, visual pace of space, stillness, minimalism, and product experience like ritual kits, tactile inserts, “Sunday Sessions” campaigns.

Tone of Voice: Calm, Empowering, Minimal The brand’s verbal identity adopts a tone that is gentle yet grounded, informed by heritage and quiet confidence. Words like ritual, reflection, crafted, and clarity were chosen over trend-driven, high-energy language. The tone speaks to mindful achievers, customers who value elegance and restraint. The tagline evolved through testing and iteration from “Where ambitious living meets mindful planning” to a more poetic hybrid that incorporates the idea of time as luxury.

Student work by Valeria Colesanti

BA (Hons) Business & Management

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CERAMICS & GLASS Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W266

Where fire, material, and curiosity shape who you become as a maker.

Every maker remembers the first time they worked hot glass or threw clay on a wheel. These are materials that respond to your touch and your vision, so you need to study them in a way that puts you at the heart of it. At UCA, you’ll get the time, space, facilities, and freedom to find out exactly what your style is and where your strengths lie.

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BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass

Student work by Rosa Binias

You’ll study in the UK’s first UNESCO World Craft Town, with access to one of only a handful of university glass hot shops in the country, alongside dedicated ceramics studios equipped for everything from traditional throwing to 3D clay printing. Your tutors are practising makers and craftspeople – who teach and train you in the workshop, not the lecture theatre.

Whether you lean into ceramics, glass, or discover something powerful in combining both, you’ll graduate with deep material knowledge, a distinctive creative voice, and the professional skills to build a lasting career in contemporary craft.

BA (Hons) Ceramics & Glass

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COMIC & CONCEPT ART Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W223

Worldbuilding, character creation, and storytelling – all rolled into one.

The best comic and concept artists share something rare: the ability to create worlds. They have a unique way of seeing, creating, and telling stories – through character and environment concept art, or the panels and pages of a comic. This is a course designed to help you find that voice, develop it, and carry it confidently into an industry that cherishes originality and difference.

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BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art

Here, you’ll build serious technical and creative skills across 2D and 3D – from life drawing and digital painting to character design, environment art, and sequential storytelling. From first year, you’ll be encouraged to bring your own ideas, your own characters, and your own worlds to the table. From second year, you’ll collaborate with gaming students to bring your creations to life inside real playable productions.

By graduation, you’ll have a clear creative identity, a portfolio built around your specialism, and the professional skills to take it wherever you want – studios, conventions, indie publishing, games pre-production, or a freelance practice of your own.

Student work by Evie Moye

BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art

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BSc COMPUTER SCIENCE Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

G400

Code, create, and collaborate – with creativity at the heart of your skills.

Learning to code will give you a skill for life. Learning to code in an art school, surrounded by creatives and working on experimental briefs, will give you an edge that makes you impossible to ignore in the job market. Here, you’ll collaborate with artists, designers, film directors, and game makers – who will change the way you see software and systems, and give you a unique vision of computing.

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BSc (Hons) Computer Science

You’ll get your hands on the hardware early – Arduinos, sensors, circuit boards – and work in virtual production studios alongside your end users. The software you write will have consequences that you can see and hear – fundamentally influencing the way you see and write code.

Graduate with a full technical toolkit: programming, algorithms, software engineering, AI, data, systems – accredited and industryready. And because you’ve spent three years building software alongside other digital creatives, you’ll have a perspective, portfolio, and level of experience that most of your peers won’t.

BSc (Hons) Computer Science

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DESIGN FOR THEATRE & SCREEN Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W440

Design the worlds where stories are told – for stage, screen, and everything in between.

Whatever’s in your imagination – a set, a costume, a puppet, a prop – you’ll learn to design and make it here. Bring your vision to life at full scale, so that by the time you graduate, you’ll have stood inside environments you designed and watched performers wear costumes you created.

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BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Screen

The course runs on a dual structure: you’re always sketching a concept in one stream while physically building something in another, and over three years that constant back-and-forth between thinking and making is how you find out exactly what kind of designer you are.

Industry connections run throughout the whole experience. Creatives from Marvel, the National Theatre, Marvel, and the National Film and Television School (NFTS) have all visited the studios, placements at Apple have turned into real jobs, and recent students have built a 4.8-metre LED-rigged set, made puppets for The Herds, and designed entire virtual environments.

Student work by Anna Davies

Image: The Herds

BA (Hons) Design for Theatre & Screen

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DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W690

Push the boundaries of art, tech, and creation.

Digital art isn’t all about the screen. It’s about using technology to create things that make people think – installations that respond to your body, soundscapes built from data, sculptures wired with sensors, VR environments that challenge how you see the world. If it’s digital, and it’s artistic, and it means something to you – you can pursue it here.

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BA (Hons) Digital Media Arts

You’ll work across every medium imaginable – code and clay, VR headsets and hand tools, sound design and live performance. From first year, you’re collaborating with students from Computer Science, Craft, Animation, and Fine Art, learning to think in ways that change what you’re able to make.

Learning here happens in sprints: a burst of intensive input, then studio time to build, test, break things, and start again – just like it happens in the industry.

That’s why our graduates regularly go on to work at the BBC, The Guardian, Amazon, LUSH, and Audible – as motion designers, UX designers, creative directors, and filmmakers. That’s why our alumni include His Dark Materials director Will McGregor, and why ISEA International, the global network for art, science, and technology, is headquartered right here on campus.

Student work by Milo Moores

Student work by JIpyo Hong

BA (Hons) Digital Media Arts

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DIGITAL MARKETING Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom, Farnham and Canterbury

P304

Where creative thinkers become marketing leaders.

Creativity is a booming business, but even the best ideas mean little if nobody gets to see them. You’ll learn to make sure they’re seen – by building brands, shaping campaigns, and driving audiences across every platform – with creative instincts that will give you an edge when you launch your own career.

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BA (Hons) Digital Marketing

At UCA, you’ll study alongside fashion designers, stylists, photographers, and creative entrepreneurs – surrounded on all sides by the creative energy of a specialist arts university. Being part of real creative practice will give you an intuitive understanding of how creative industries think, work, and communicate.

From live client briefs and industry conferences to handson technical sessions, and from content creation to data analytics – your learning is focused on doing things and seeing what works. You’ll be taught by professionals who’ve spent decades in agencies, publishing, advertising, and merchandising – and who bring that experience into your projects, feedback, and career conversations.

Student work by Daisy Kelly

BA (Hons) Digital Marketing

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FASHION ATELIER Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom

W237

Train to craft high-end garments for luxury brands. The UK’s only Fashion Atelier degree.

Most fashion courses teach you to design, this one teaches you to make – an advantage that will follow you for life. In fashion, an atelier is a specialised workshop where skilled designers craft high-end garments.

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BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier

The course was built in direct response to what the industry kept asking for: designers who understand how garments are actually made. You’ll learn bespoke tailoring, couture sewing, bias cutting, and fabric manipulation – skills that have become increasingly rare, and increasingly in-demand.

If you want more than a portfolio of ideas – if you want to own every step of the process, from first drape to final stitch – this is where that happens.

You’ll cut, drape, construct, and finish luxury pieces to demanding standards, graduating with the creative confidence and technical skills to forge an outstanding and distinctive career in high-end fashion.

Student work by Rosemary Yu

BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier

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FASHION BRANDING & COMMUNICATION Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom

WN65

Tell stories that move fashion forward.

Build brands that people remember.

Behind all of your favourite brands, there’s someone who knows how to communicate it through image, story, and innovation.

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BA (Hons) Fashion Branding & Communication

Student work by Charlotte Graham

This is a course designed to teach you how to do the same: creating, directing, and shaping how fashion and beauty brands connect with the world and everyone in it.

You’ll communicate through images first and words second – building campaigns, editorials, fashion films, and brand identities that are visually striking and commercially strategic.

Across photography, video, digital media, and editorial production, you’ll develop creative direction and storytelling skills that can transform the fate of a brand.

Based at UCA Epsom, you’ll study on a specialist creative campus that gives you space and time to find your voice – but close enough to London to attend shows and events. You’ll be taught by tutors with experience across fashion publishing, brand strategy, and creative direction. You’ll graduate with the kind of creative confidence and professional skills that will set you apart from your peers.

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding & Communication

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FASHION BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom

N101

The business behind the brand.

Creative thinking for the fashion industry.

Behind every collection, every campaign, every successful brand – there’s a person with an outstanding business brain.

They understand strategy, culture, timing, and how these apply to fashion.

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BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Management

On this course, we’ll train you to become one of them: a fashion leader who thinks creatively, acts commercially, and understands what makes fashion unique.

You’ll learn every aspect of the business: from buying and merchandising, to omnichannel marketing, sustainable finance, and data analytics as you progress. You’re taught by highly experienced tutors with extensive experience in fashion – who bring decades of lessons learned to every lecture.

On this course, you’ll become a razor sharp strategic thinker.

You’ll learn to question why trends get pushed, where the industry is heading, and what the data is (and isn’t) saying.

Graduate with the skills and judgement to step into the industry – or to build something entirely your own.

Student work by Graciella Violetta

BA (Hons) Fashion Business & Management

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FASHION DESIGN Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom

W233

Fashion Design built around your vision, your direction, and your future.

Fashion is one of the most culturally alive and creative industries there is – and this course puts you right at the heart of it, with the freedom to take it anywhere. Your concepts, your passions, your voice. From high street to high-end, womenswear, menswear or gender-neutral fashion whatever you’re drawn to is a direction you can pursue.

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BA (Hons) Fashion Design

This is a hands-on course where you’ll get physical with materials, through fashion illustration and visualisation, pattern cutting and a range of garment construction techniques and design methods that inspire you to develop your fashion concepts into fashion designs and three-dimensional realisations. Textiles construction, dye and print are part of your learning journey – alongside your time spent designing and making fashion in our well-equipped studios. You’ll understand how fabrics are made, not just how they’re used – a perspective and understanding that will set you apart from your peers.

You’ll work within a diverse, multicultural student community at Epsom – close enough to London to source fabrics and visit exhibitions, but with the space to think clearly and the time to find your own voice in fashion.

Student work by Célian Dewasmes

BA (Hons) Fashion Design

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FASHION IMAGE & STYLING Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom

W239

Stylist, Photographer, or Creative Director?

You’re inspired by the photographers, stylists, and creative directors whose work makes you stop and think. The editorials excite you, you’ve archived the campaigns, and are building an instinctive eye for what makes a fashion image land.

This course is where that instinct is sharpened into a discipline and becomes a career.

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BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling

You’ll work across the disciplines in fashion photography, styling, and creative direction as one fluid practice – moving between roles aligned with the industry. Today’s most in-demand creatives aren’t defined by a single title, but by their ability to shape an image from concept through to final frame.

Your tutors are active photographers, stylists, and creative directors, still working inside the industry you’re stepping into. The briefs reflect real creative practice and processes, collaboration is constant, and is designed for the kind of unexpected encounters that push ideas further than you thought possible. By the time you graduate, you won’t just have a portfolio – you’ll have an industry perspective. A creative voice that’s yours, and the technical confidence to make it translate on set, on page, and on screen.

Student work by Diana Blanariu and Wen Hong

BA (Hons) Fashion Image & Styling

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FILM PRODUCTION Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W600

Your story. Your crew. Your film.

And the skills that make it.

This is a course with one purpose: get you making films so you learn through making. From your first term, you’ll be pitching ideas, crewing up, and shooting – learning to tell the stories you want to tell. What you make, the voice you develop, the filmmaker you become – is all up to you.

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BA (Hons) Film Production

You’ll work with professional-grade kit, supported by specialist technicians who know every light and lens inside and out. You’ll gain BAFTA albert sustainability certification, health and safety credentials recognised across the industry, and the chance to train toward Avid editing certification. You’ll shoot fiction, documentary, and experimental work, then move into territory where film meets other media and technologies.

By graduation, you’ll have a showreel, a crew, and a professional network built through three years of collaborative filmmaking. You’ll know what kind of filmmaker you are – and you’ll have the skills and the credits to prove it.

Student work by Ruben Mangatal-Francis, Joshua Isted, Tyler Rameau, Ella Dicker, Rowan Kramer, Leo Royston Perry

BA (Hons) Film Production

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FINE ART CANTERBURY Campus

UCAS Code

Canterbury

W100

Find your voice at a specialist art school – with the space and freedom to think big.

Join a thriving creative community rooted in over a century of art school heritage. With dedicated studio spaces, project rooms, specialist workshops, and resident artists as tutors – you’ll get the space, time, and direction to think big and experiment freely.

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BA (Hons) Fine Art—Canterbury

Painting, sculpture, performance, film, installation, fabrication – the form your work takes is yours to decide.

There’s no house style here and no right way to do Fine Art. You’ll be supported to find and develop your own creative voice by making, testing, and taking creative risks in a culture that treats experimentation as an essential part of the process.

And at Canterbury – with easy connections to Margate’s Turner Contemporary, Folkestone’s Triennial, London’s galleries, and the Eurostar – you’ll be part of a growing artistic community in one of the UK’s most historically rich cities.

Student work by Jack Park

BA (Hons) Fine Art—Canterbury

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FINE ART FARNHAM Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W101

Fine Art grounded in materials and making.

Because if you can’t make it, it’s just an idea.

Fine Art at Farnham starts with your hands. From your first day, you’ll be in the studios and workshops – painting, drawing, casting, welding, shaping plaster, and building assemblage – developing the essential skills that ground contemporary artistic practice. As you progress, you decide whether to deepen what you’ve started or push into completely new territory, returning to that choice as your work evolves.

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BA (Hons) Fine Art—Farnham

This is a course that treats making and thinking as inseparable. Ideas emerge through active engagement with materials, and critical enquiry grows from the physical act of working with them. By your final year, you’ll be applying for open calls, presenting work publicly, drafting funding proposals and refining your professional approach. You’ll leave as an artist who is materially confident, conceptually alert and equipped to sustain a meaningful creative life.

Student work by Stacey Allan

BA (Hons) Fine Art—Farnham

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GAMES ARTS Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W280

Create characters. Tell stories. Build worlds.

The best games artists can do something rare: combine the eye of a traditional artist with the technical ability to build entire worlds around their idea. They sculpt, paint, light, and compose – and every decision has to work in real time, at scale, under constraints. That’s what this course teaches.

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BA (Hons) Games Arts

Here, you’ll create characters, environments, and props using industry-standard pipelines – from 2D concepts through to high-fidelity 3D production in Unreal Engine. But your learning goes way deeper than just using the software. Drawing, digital painting, and visual storytelling run through the course because those are the skills that don’t date – and the ones that will set your work apart for the rest of your career.

From first year, you’ll work in cross-disciplinary game production teams alongside designers and developers, contributing art to playable prototypes in a studio environment that mirrors how the industry actually works. You’ll graduate with a professional portfolio, clear creative identity, and the confidence to walk into a studio and deliver from day one.

Student work by Alfie Manning

BA (Hons) Games Arts

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GAMES DESIGN Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

I620

Build the world. Design the game.

Lead the play.

Every great game build starts with a designer who understands how players think, move, and feel.

Someone who can shape a world, build its rules, and make every moment of interaction count. This course turns your ideas into playable, compelling experiences.

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BA (Hons) Games Design

At UCA Farnham, you’ll learn games design the way the industry actually works: collaboratively, iteratively, and inside a real studio environment. You’ll prototype mechanics, design levels, build systems, and you’ll playtest relentlessly – working alongside developers and artists from day one.

You’ll graduate with much more than a portfolio.

You’ll have the instincts, the technical range, and the credits to walk into a studio and contribute from day one. Whether you’re a natural level designer, systems pro, storywriter, or player behaviouralist – this is where you’ll find your specialism and make it razor sharp.

Student work by Nathan Poole

BA (Hons) Games Design

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BSc GAMES DEVELOPMENT Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

G450

Write the code. Build the system.

Ship the game.

Behind every successful game is a developer who made it run.

Someone who can solve complex technical problems and ship a finished product across real platforms. This is the course that will make you that person.

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BSc (Hons) Games Development

You’ll learn to program, build, and deploy games using the same tools and workflows that world-class developers use. From first year, you’ll learn by doing: working in cross-disciplinary production teams alongside games artists and designers, making real games, inside real studios.

You’ll graduate with experience of developing games for different platforms, a portfolio that proves you can build and deliver, and a clear sense of where you fit – in gameplay programming, engine development, tools, or technical design.

Student work by Aimar Goni

AI-driven medieval life simulation where characters pursue specific quests like gathering wood, berries, or water

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GRAPHIC DESIGN Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W217

Ink on your hands. Pixels at your fingertips.

Make the kind of work machines can’t.

Take control of your craft in studios that run just like the real thing: busy, honest, hands-on. Work with everything – letterpress, silkscreen, riso, digital, 3D printing, motion, sound – building a toolkit and portfolio that will make you impossible to ignore in the job market.

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BA (Hons) Graphic Design

From day one, you’ll tackle real briefs for industry and competitions, present your work to industry professionals, and develop the creative confidence to hold your own in any studio. Past partners include Ogilvy, Kickers, Surrey County Council, and the NHS. Your career starts right here at UCA, not when you graduate.

By the time you leave, you won’t just be a graphic designer. You’ll be an ideas-led, adaptable creative who can turn their hand to brand strategy, typography, editorial, motion or UX/UI design, campaigns, content creation, and beyond – with a distinctive creative approach and the professional skills to back it up.

Student work by Julian Fouquet

Student work by Emily Lucas

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ILLUSTRATION Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W220

Learn the language of illustration and find your visual voice.

Experiment, explore, play, and take risks in studios where ideas are tested through material practice and critical thinking. You’ll work with long-established techniques as well as emerging technologies, building a practice that shifts easily between approaches and continually redefines what illustration can be.

This is illustration taught as a dynamic, materially exploratory, and conceptually rigorous discipline – shaped by the creative possibilities that happen when methods and ideas collide.

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BA (Hons) Illustration

You’ll have the chance to work on live briefs for brands like Toyota, Netflix, and Hallmark, and enter competitions including the Penguin Design Awards and the Folio Society, and have your portfolio reviewed by creative agents who work with emerging illustrators. These industry connections inform the curriculum and are designed to help you build confidence, experience and a developing professional voice as you progress through the degree.

By the time you graduate, you’ll have a distinctive visual voice, a portfolio that spans editorial, narrative, children’s books, brand work – and the creative confidence to go freelance, get signed by an agency, or carve out a practice entirely your own.

Student work by Sophie Whyte

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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN Campus

UCAS Code

Canterbury

W257

Learn the art of influencing how people experience space, from homes to hotels.

Interior design is as much about people as it is about place. You need to know design principles and understand architecture, but you also need to understand human psychology: how we move through spaces and what we need from our environment. On this course, we’ll train you to combine technical skills and creative thinking – through real projects at real scale.

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BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design

You’ll have your own dedicated studio for all three years – readily accessible and large enough to work at the scale that interior projects demand. You’ll build site models that stay up for months, test full-scale prototypes, and develop ideas the way professional designers actually do – over time.

With London’s ultra-modern skyline and Kent’s heritage coast both nearby, you’ll get exposure to everything from commercial retail and hospitality projects to civic spaces and ancient buildings. By the time you graduate, you’ll have a jam-packed portfolio, a diverse range of experience, and a clear sense of the direction you want to take your career.

Student work by Jinxing Wu

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JEWELLERY & SILVERSMITHING Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W271

Forty benches. One of them is yours.

Fine metal makers learn through heat, pressure and patience.

They find their ideas at the bench, not just on the page. This is a course built for that instinct – where hands-on learning and creative experimentation run through the heart of your growth as a craftsperson.

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BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing

Based in the UK’s first UNESCO World Craft Town, you’ll develop your practice on dedicated jewellery benches, specialist casting facilities, and workshops for everything from traditional raising and forging to CAD/ CAM and digital fabrication. Your tutors are practising makers. Your technical teams are expert craftspeople.

Your learning happens through your hands.

You’ll graduate with technical depth, a distinctive creative voice, and the professional resilience to build a lasting career – whether that’s your own studio practice or a role within an established maker.

Student work by Hannah Norris

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MAKE-UP & HAIR DESIGN Campus

UCAS Code

Epsom

W452

Become a visual artist who thinks, concepts, and creates for print, screen, and show.

There’s so much more to make-up and hair than the transformation. The best artists understand how identity, culture, and storytelling influence style, trends, and outcomes.

On this course, you’ll learn it all – honing technical precision, finding your signature style, and developing the kind of conceptual thinking that will set you and your work apart.

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BA (Hons) Make-Up & Hair Design

These are skills that come through extensive studio time, where every single session of this course is taught. Masterclasses, seminars, workshops, briefings – they all happen where you create your work, so you can always link theory and practice. Master the art and the application in fully-equipped beauty studios that reflect real industry environments.

Fashion editorial, film, TV, theatre, beauty brands, private clients – you’ll develop skills across all of them. You’ll learn how designing for print differs from screen, how your artistry adapts to each context, and how to build a creative career with the range to take you anywhere.

Student work by Cliona O’Sullivan and Millie Phillips

Student work by Seraphina Maddox

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MUSIC & SOUND PRODUCTION Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W302

Produce music. Design sound. Launch your career from industry-standard studios.

Are you a composer, performer, or producer? Or do you just know that you belong in a recording studio? This is a course designed to help you turn your passion into your profession – and forge a serious career in sound. At UCA, you’ll build the technical skills, industry-awareness, and the creative confidence to pursue whichever direction you choose.

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BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production

You’ll work in industry-standard recording studios with the same equipment you’d find in the industry. Producing, mixing, engineering and designing sound across music, film, games and live performance. Your tutors are producers, engineers, and researchers – working practitioners who bring business thinking into every part of the course.

Surrounded by actors, filmmakers, animators and game designers, your skills are needed by other students from day one. You’ll get plenty of practice as you collaborate across disciplines – the way the creative industries actually work – and graduate ready for a career that began the moment you stepped on campus.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Campus

UCAS Code

Farnham

W640

Shoot it. Print it. Show it. Train in a place known for producing some of photography’s best talents.

Get stuck in and hands-on with one of the UK’s longest-running photography degrees. Shoot, process, and print using facilities most courses can’t compete with – full colour and black-andwhite analogue darkrooms, professional photo studios, digital imaging suites, and an equipment store stocked with treasures to make any professional jealous.

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BA (Hons) Photography

There’s a special heritage at UCA Farnham. You’ll join a tradition that has produced titans of the industry and connects you to an international alumni network spanning editorial, documentary, fashion, fine art and commercial photography. Recent graduates are now working at ad agencies and magazines including Wallpaper* and The Sunday Times, and leading teams at the Association of Photographers, the Financial Times, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

You’ll cover video, sound, moving image, and innovative tech – as well as working with graphic designers on real commercial briefs to produce real client work.

When you graduate, you’ll have the kind of portfolio and skillset that will turn heads and launch careers.

Student work by Isabella Campion, exhibited at National Portrait Gallery

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PRODUCT DESIGN Campus

UCAS Code

Canterbury

W243

Master through making, in workshops brimming with craft, curiosity, and experimentation.

Product Design at UCA starts with your hands. This is a course where learning happens through making and materials – wood, metal, plastics, laser cutting, CNC, 3D printing, casting – and where you can move from concept to prototype in hours, not weeks.

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You’re hands-on, but you’ll also get to grips with critical theory and understanding. You’ll tackle global design challenges aligned with UN Sustainability Goals, work with real clients, and tackle competition briefs that push you into challenging and unfamiliar territory. One student team swept every single prize in the Andersen EV competition, exhibited at London Design Week, turning coffee grounds into a bio-resin faceplate for EV chargers.

By the time you graduate, you’ll have an inventor’s mindset and the technical skills to back it up and build your products. Your portfolio, experience, and conceptual thinking will set you apart when you hit the job market.

Student work by Maxel The Hutama

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TELEVISION PRODUCTION Campus

UCAS Code

Maidstone

P311

Learn television where television is made.

Based at Maidstone Studios – a working commercial TV studio – you’ll train on the same studios and equipment used by the BBC, ITV, and major production companies.

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BA (Hons) Television Production

From day one, you’re studying right at the heart of the industry, not learning about it from the outside.

You’ll develop skills across the full breadth of television: scripted and unscripted, drama and factual, singlecamera and multi-camera, recorded and live.

With small cohorts, you get genuine, hands-on access to professional facilities and real work experience.

As you grow, so does your range. From screenwriting and camera work, to pitching original formats and producing an ambitious studio show – you’ll build the creative confidence, technical craft and collaborative instincts that will have the industry lining up for your skills.

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VISUAL COMMUNICATION Campus

UCAS Code

Canterbury

W215

Embrace your love of drawing and design.

Break the boundaries of storytelling.

Visual Communication is where illustration, graphic design, animation, and photography converge. This is a hybrid course for a hybrid world – where creative careers demand fluency across disciplines. You’ll navigate your own path through these interconnected fields, building a practice that’s as broad or as focused as your ambitions require.

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BA (Hons) Visual Communication

Student work by Ashley Sellen

Taught by practising designers in studio environments, you’ll develop much more than just your technical skills. You’ll learn to think critically about what you’re communicating, who you’re talking to, and how it reaches them.

From traditional letterpress and screen printing to projection mapping and augmented reality, you’ll train across both analogue and digital processes – developing a contextual understanding and creative confidence to set yourself apart in the industry.

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HOW TO APPLY

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YOUR PORTFOLIO At UCA, we know you’re about more than just grades.

To us, exams are only part of the picture – your creativity and what you can do are just as important. Which is why, when you apply to most of our courses, we ask to see a portfolio.

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Your Portfolio

We’ll ask you to bring this when we invite you to an Applicant Day. The day will be a fun and informal experience and an opportunity for you to meet us, and for us to learn more about you as a person.

We want to see what inspires you, what you create, and what makes you unique.

And if your course doesn’t ask for a portfolio but you still want to show us your work, we’d love to see it anyway.

Scan this QR code to see our YouTube playlist of portfolio advice videos

For most courses, we’ll ask for 12 to 20 examples of your recent work that show off your experience, interests, aspirations, and passion for your subject.

For our BA (Hons) Acting course, we will ask you to participate in an audition process.

Learn more about our portfolio advice at uca.ac.uk/portfolio-advice

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FUNDING YOUR STUDIES Going to university is a major investment in your future, and one of the biggest tasks is sorting out your funding and paying your fees. We’re here to help you through the process.

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Tuition fees: what to expect

What will it cost?

Your main outlay will be tuition fees.

The annual fees for our undergraduate degree courses are as follows:

For almost all UK undergraduate students, the Student Loans Company (SLC) will lend you the money for your fees, so you don’t have to pay upfront.

Tuition fee loans are not means-tested, and UK students can apply to cover the full cost of tuition as long as it is your first degree.

Maintenance loans are designed to help you with living costs, like accommodation, food, supplies, and travel. These are means-tested, with the amount you borrow based on where you live and study and your household income.

You’ll only begin repaying your loans to the SLC when you start earning more than £25,000 (or £32,745 in Scotland and £26,065 in Northern Ireland) a year. This works similarly to how you pay tax – repayments are taken out of your earnings before you receive your net pay, and the more you earn, the more you repay.

Get an idea of how much you could borrow and what your future repayments might look like. gov.uk/student-finance

Undergraduate fees* BA/BSc (Hons) three-year degree course: £9,790 * Fees stated are indicative only. Fees values may change as a result of changes in government policy on tuition fees, inflation, entitlement to fee reductions and tax or benefit rules.

For more information about our fees, visit our website at uca.ac.uk/fees Additional costs There will be other expenses to consider on top of your tuition fees, such as the cost of mandatory trips and exhibitions, and materials. We’ll tell you as much as we can about these when we offer you a place.

When you’re planning your finances, remember to consider other outlays, such as accommodation, food, utility bills, equipment, and art materials.

Scholarships UCA offers scholarships and fee discounts for a range of learners and subject areas – you can find out more about scholarships on our website at uca.ac.uk/scholarships

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APPLICATION PROCESS We really hope you’ve got all the information you need and are feeling excited about starting the next stage of your journey with us at UCA. If you’d like to apply to become a student here, there are a few things you need to do.

So, we’ve put together this checklist of tasks for you to tick off as you go.

If you are an international student, your application process is slightly different— visit uca.ac.uk/international-applications

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Apply For full-time undergraduate courses, fill out an application form via ucas.com. The institution name is UCA, the institution code is C93, and campus codes are C, E, F and M (for Maidstone TV Studios). We guarantee to consider your application if you apply by the UCAS equal consideration date (13 January 2027) but we usually still have places available after this date.

Create a portfolio Your course might require a portfolio – we’ll send you specific requirements after you’ve applied. Our key tips for your portfolio are: • Lead with your show-stopping pieces • Show us how you think – document your ideas in a sketchbook

Note: If you are only applying to UCA, you can use the direct application forms on the course pages on our website uca.ac.uk

• Present examples of your research that show idea development • Let your personality shine through and tell us what or who inspires you

Your application Once you’ve submitted your application, you’ll receive an email from us with your username and password for the UCA Applicant Portal, which you can use to check the status of your application.

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Accept your offer

Your offer

Come to your applicant day This may include a portfolio review, audition and/or a meeting with your course team. You’ll also learn more about your course and campus, and get to meet current students.

For UCAS applications, accept by logging into UCAS Hub. For direct applications, accept using the task in your UCA Applicant Portal.

If your application is successful, you’ll receive an offer email from us that explains the full terms and conditions of your offer (you’ll also be able to find this on the UCA Applicant Portal). Remember - if your offer is conditional, you’ll need to provide evidence of meeting the conditions before you join. We’ll let you know how to do this.

Apply for accommodation As soon as you can apply for accommodation, we’ll contact you to let you know. This is usually in March for courses starting in September.

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Apply for a student loan To apply, visit: • gov.uk/student-finance (England), saas • gov.uk (Scotland)

Take your place at UCA

• studentfinancewales.co.uk (Wales) • studentfinanceni.co.uk (Northern Ireland)

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Enrol on your course

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Settle into your accommodation

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Meet your new friends!

Confirm your accommodation For halls or local accommodation, make sure you’ve: • Made your advance payment • Confirmed your moving-in date

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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS When looking at whether to offer you a place on one of our courses, we’ll consider your academic credentials alongside the creative talent shown in your portfolio.

Sometimes, we make offers with lower entry requirements to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance, and who were expected to achieve higher results. In these cases, a strong portfolio is particularly important.

Opposite and on the following page, is a breakdown of the usual academic requirements for each of our courses.

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BA/BSc DEGREE Either one of the following qualifications:

• A Level results adding up to 112 UCAS tariff points • Or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design with a Pass • Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC National Extended Diploma with Distinction/Merit/Merit • Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Merit • Or 112 UCAS points from an Access to Higher Education Diploma in an appropriate subject

• Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 112 UCAS tariff points • Or T Level Merit in a related subject • Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 27–30 (at least 15 IB points at Higher Level).

• Plus four GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

• Plus a portfolio of work at the required standard (where relevant).

INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR Either one of the following qualifications:

• A Level results adding up to 32 UCAS tariff points • Or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design with a Pass • Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC National Extended Diploma with Pass/Pass/Pass • Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Pass • Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 32 UCAS tariff points

• Or T Level Pass in a related subject • Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 24 or above.

• Plus four GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

• Plus a portfolio of work at the required standard.

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COURSES WITH SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS BSc (Hons) Games Development In addition to our standard BA/BSc Degree entry requirements, applicants will need five GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including English language, maths (grade 9–6/A*– B) and science or physics (grade 9–6/A*– B) for entry onto the main degree or the Integrated Foundation Year.

BA (Hons) Architecture • A Level results adding up to a minimum of 128 UCAS tariff points

• Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 128 UCAS points

• Or 128 UCAS points from an Access to Higher Education Diploma in an appropriate subject

• Or T Level Merit in a related subject

• Or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design with a Merit • Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC National Extended Diploma with Distinction/ Distinction/Merit • Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Merit

• Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 29 to 32 (at least 16 IB points at Higher Level).

• Plus five GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including maths and English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

• Plus a portfolio of work at the required standard.

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BA (Hons) Architecture with Integrated Foundation Year • A Level results adding up to 64 UCAS tariff points • Or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design with a Pass • Or a BTEC Extended Diploma/BTEC National Extended Diploma with Pass/Pass/Pass • Or a UAL Extended Diploma with a Pass • Or a combination of accepted Level 3 qualifications adding up to 32 UCAS tariff points

• Or T Level Pass in a related subject • Or an IB (International Baccalaureate) with a score of 24 or above.

• Plus five GCSE passes at grade 9 to 4 and/or A* to C, including maths and English (or Functional Skills English Level 2).

• No portfolio of work is required for this course.

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International students International students can view typical entry requirements by country on our website.

If your first language is not English, you will be required to provide evidence of your English language ability – usually a total score of 6.0 on the IELTS for UKVI Academic or IELTS Academic tests, with no less than 5.5 in any component.

More information on our English language entry requirements and other evidence we can accept is available on our website uca.ac.uk/international

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Mature students If you’re returning to study as a mature student, your entry requirements may differ, so email us admissions@uca.ac.uk and we’ll guide you through the process and what you need to do to secure a place.

You can find out more about becoming a mature student at UCA on our website uca.ac.uk/mature-students

UCAS tariff points

Other qualifications

The UCAS tariff is a point system which compares a wide range of qualifications to enable universities to operate a fairer decision-making process when it comes to making offers. You can find the tariff value of your qualifications using the UCAS tariff calculator on its website ucas.com

We can consider other relevant and equivalent UK/EU/international qualifications on an individual basis.

Not all qualifications are included in the tariff, so don’t worry if you can’t find your qualification – if it’s not there, get in touch and we’ll confirm whether we accept it.

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WHERE WE ARE

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Where We Are

London Heathrow

London

UCA Epsom

Maidstone Television Studios

UCA Farnham London Gatwick

UCA Canterbury Channel Tunnel

UCA Canterbury

UCA Farnham

New Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3AN +44 (0) 1227 817302

Falkner Road Farnham Surrey GU9 7DS +44 (0) 1252 722441

UCA Epsom

Maidstone Television Studios

Ashley Road Epsom Surrey KT18 5BE +44 (0) 1372 728811

Vinters Park Maidstone Kent ME14 5NZ +44 (0) 1622 620151

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OPEN DAYS AT UCA YOU NEED TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT There’s nothing quite like the first time you see Canterbury’s high-ceiling studios, Epsom’s classic Jacquard loom, or Farnham’s futuristic Virtual Production suite.

Tour incredible facilities, experience our unique creative community, meet future tutors, and picture yourself living and studying at one of our beautiful campuses.

You’ll get a real taste of what life is like at UCA, and the chance to ask students, graduates, and staff what makes this place so special to them.

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Open Days at UCA

PLANNING YOUR OPEN DAY The best way to visit us is to book online.

It’s free and easy to do, and you’ll be able to register for any talks you’d like to go to.

You can hear more about courses, what student life is like here, how to prepare your portfolio, how to fund your studies, and more.

You can also go on tours at each campus – Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham – as well as visit the accommodation to see where you’d like to live.

Book your spot uca.ac.uk/opendays Chat to a student uca.ac.uk/chat Explore online talks uca.ac.uk/live

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Disclaimer Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this prospectus at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to make changes.

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